Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:48:14 +0200 From: dan <meslists@yahoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ? Message-ID: <200906232348.14647.meslists@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <4A414751.9090804@onetel.com> References: <200906212038.39370.meslists@yahoo.fr> <20090622214802.0761813e@gumby.homeunix.com> <4A414751.9090804@onetel.com>
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:21:21 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 > > > > Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > >> I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using > >> ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten > >> about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it > >> was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u' over one or > >> two quite major changes and not had any problems that haven't been > >> down to an individual ports. > > > > You still need to read UPDATING, portmanager handles some of the > > issues automatically, but not all. > > Not trolling but can you give me some examples? > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Yes. I think there is at least one. Please, consider to correct me if I am wrong. Yesterday, reading the contents of /usr/src/UPDATING in the source tree (using portupdate-scan) I found : "[...] 20090608: AFFECTS: users of lang/python* and py-* AUTHOR: miwi@FreeBSD.org The default version of Python has been changed from 2.5.x to 2.6.x. If you have 2.5.x installed, perform an upgrade of lang/python25 to lang/python26 with the following command: [...] " Can portmanager know that the default version of a port has been changed and then you need to do the upgrade to the newer major version ? And if it can know that... can also portmanager know that "[...] Once the installed Python has been updated to 2.6, by using the method above, it is required to run the upgrade-site-packages target in lang/python to assure that site-packages are made available to the new Python version. [...] "? If, otherwise, using portmanager you end up with a newer version of python 2.5 (for example)... are you sure that every upgrade in the future will work flawlessly ? After Reading the UPDATING file a guy will " [...] set the PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION variable to 'python2.5' without quotes in make.conf, then go to lang/python and perform the following command: [...] " will portmanager do the same ? d
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